The Woman Who Stymied Smallpox The Woman Who Stymied Smallpox

The Woman Who Stymied Smallpox

Richard Diedrichs
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Publisher Description

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu lost her brother to smallpox in 1713 and contracted the disease herself two years later. When she traveled to the Ottoman Empire as the British Ambassador's wife, she witnessed people being inoculated against the virus. She brought the preventative treatment back to England and faced resistance. After safely inoculating her own daughter, she gathered support, and inoculat

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2019
29 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
6
Pages
PUBLISHER
Richard Diedrichs
SELLER
Draft2Digital, LLC
SIZE
82
KB

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